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Proxy a User Account

Once you have created new user accounts, menus, or dashboards, you can test them. The Proxy feature lets you temporarily assume the identity of other CA Performance Center operators. You can proxy other users to validate significant changes or enhancements to dashboards. As a proxy, you see the same pages as the operator associated with the user account. You can also create dashboards that appear in the My Dashboards menu of another user.

When proxying a user account, the tenant, permission groups, and user settings, including the time zone, are proxied. You can therefore test and verify these settings. Role rights and product privileges to data sources are not proxied. To proxy a user account from another tenant, first set the tenant scope to that tenant.

The proxied user account only persists within CA Performance Center. If you follow a drilldown path to a data source, the user account defaults to the original user account settings.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Navigate to the Manage Users page.

   The page displays the current list of user accounts.

3. Select the user account that you want to assume, and click Proxy.

   User account proxying begins. The 'Proxy User [User Name]' indicator appears in the upper-right corner of the page.

   Another login is not required.

4. Navigate the interface as desired to verify the dashboards, menus, and views for the user whose account is being proxied.
5. Stop proxying by clicking the X next to the Proxy User indicator.

   Or click '[change]' to start proxying a different user.